1. Legislative Branch: House of Representatives
Review, Apportionment, Gerrymandering

2. Review How many members in the House? How many from each state?
Why?
How many Representatives from Pennsylvania?
E.C.-how many electoral votes for PA?

3. PA District 6 Rep. Ryan Costello http://costello.house.gov/ Republican
1st term

4. Pennsylvania's 6th congressional district
Current Representative
Ryan Costello (R)
Distribution
85.78% urban, 14.22% rural
Population (2000)
646,221
Median income
$55,611
Ethnicity
87.9% White, 6.8% Black, 2.1% Asian, 3.7% Hispanic, 0.1% Native American, 0.2% other
Cook PVI
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6. How Does This Happen?
Apportionment: The Congressionally mandated distribution of congressional seats based on the census.
Census: every ___________
The total number of House seats doesn’t change
Each House seat represents about _____ people
The party in the majority of each state redraws its districts. How could this spell trouble?

9. Think Tony Montana
“In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power.”

10. Why does the Census Matter?
Political Power:
Money:
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11. How Does This Happen? (cont.)
Gerrymandering: Practice of creating districts to enhance the political advantage of one party or group.
Can be used to gain political advantage, consolidate power, protect incumbents, and weaken political impact of other party or certain groups of people

13. Gerrymandering Activity
Rules: USE A PENCIL!!!!!
Create 4 district in each area; each district is one whole shape, not pieces
Each district must have same total number of residents
In the top map, try to arrange for the Republicans to win as many districts as possible (3-1, 4-0)
In the bottom map, create a map for the Democrats to win as many as possible

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